Professor of Geology and past Director of the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre Richard Robertson during a call to WEFM’s Wake Up morning program earlier today provided and update on the activity at La Soufriere volcano.
“Since the explosions stopped we’ve continued to have a few events here and there—so we’re still having earthquakes, not of anywhere of the scale of what we had before but certainly not back to background; because you know the background you get one or two events every couple months, we are still having more frequently that, they’re usually very small”. He said.
Professor Robertson said that this activity is what is to be expected since the system is in the process of settling back down, now that the eruption has ceased.
He then goes on to discuss the main activity of note at La Soufriere.
“The main activity really is still focused at the top where you still have a lot of steaming going on and still a lot of hot rock up there. So up at the top summit and close to the summit, the landscape is still damaged, fractured and unstable, and physically, when you see it, you’ll see that clearly there is something that happened recently.” The Professor said.
La Soufriere volcano erupted in April of last year causing approximately 20,000 persons to have to evacuate their homes to seek safety in shelters, as well as private homes out of the volcanic red zone at the north of the island.
